Parse a date in rails

Question

I have a date (Which is actually parsed from a PDF) and it could be any of the following format:

MM/DD/YYYY
MM/DD/YY
M/D/YY
October 15, 2007
Oct 15, 2007 
         


        

Answer 1

I find the chronic gem very easy to use for time parsing and it should work for you. i tried the examples you gave.

https://github.com/mojombo/chronic